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the sounds

dreamers,
i’m musing while cinnamon buns bake in the oven of a sweet, manly creatures kitchen.
the sun shines on the wooden floor.
the quiet hums, making sure it doesn’t go unnoticed.
my heart beats soundly.
the sounds climbing up my throat from behind my ribs.

there is much la, la in this.

love,
jess

Sneak Peeks!

Here are a few stills from Saturdays Video Shoot with Cynthia Rose!

Welcome!

Fellow Dreamers!
I know it’s been an eon since I last updated, but if you take a gander at the sight it should be glaringly obvious that it was for good reason. Welcome to the new and improved jesshill.ca!

So much is unfolding these days. I really can’t remember a time when life seemed this chock full of activity. My enthusiasm is ever-growing! The release of Orchard is just weeks away as is my 6week tour with Jeff Andrew to PEI and back.

I will be updating this site as regularly as a dreamy minded human being can be expected to, so do please visit again soon. In the meantime here is a link to a lil’ window where you can here the local birds humming my new tunes! Take a listen and let me know what you think!

Tomorrow I’ll be doing my best to relate to the models and actresses of the world….which is to say I’ll be up at 6am for hair and make-up and then out into what will apparently be a solid attempt at winter for the westcoast in my corset and bloomers. Cindy Rose (the mastermind and director of the From Above video) is directing a dreamy promotional trailer for the new record. It’s such an inspiring and delightful thing to be working with her again! Check back for the results of our labours and my shivering.

For now I’ll leave you with our last collaboration:

 

…in la, la and love,
Jess Hill

because….

the streets are full of beautiful life and art and activism go hand in hand where the clever and curious exist I present you with this, my dear friend Basil Underweathers, photo series “Stephen Harpers Red Tent Vacation” (for true appreciation of which it may be advisable to know about this REDTENTS) and CJ Leons comments on yesterdays activism with two videos where in he addresses both the enthusiastic participants accidental self censoring and celebrates the footsteps of many in Vancouvers streets.

Hopefully the sharing of our questions and these kinds of links will bring us together in a dialogue regarding the positive and negative aspects of this GIGANTIC party our city is hosting.
I’m thrilled to go see Califone and Wilco for Free tonight but my heart still sinks when I remember that Arts funding for BC artists saw the most gigantic cuts it has ever seen and that we have an embarrassing distinction as the province with the highest rate of child poverty, the lowest minimum wage and a huge inability  to create affordable housing for our homeless and nearly homeless communities……and yet somehow we are still the most liveable city in the world.

…a beginning

my first letter to you.

a beginning of the words we will share on these pages.


…and a song i will sing as a sign of things to come

stagger over this way for a listen


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